II. High School/University
University is hell, of a sort. This is interesting considering the alluring promise our society holds out for it. In university you’ll have a choice of all sorts of interesting classes and activities. You’ll meet new friends from all over that you’ll be close to for the rest of your life. University is relaxed, you can study when you’d like and pick your classes to fit your own personal clock. It’s the best years of your life, before you start that awful daily grind in the working world. Forgive me this excess of bile. My realizations are simple.
- If being a professional engineer is close to as much work as being an engineering student, I’m going to quit and do something else. Quite probably, teach high school.
- The world is full of wonderful people I have constant contact with but don’t know and never will. I made this realization at the end of high school when I looked around me and saw that I was surrounded by kind, decent people, but they weren’t my friends. How come people fail to connect?
- Virtually the only reason I had contact with anyone is because I was in high school with them. This hit in first year when everything I’d known was quite suddenly gone. Happenstance is by definition a terrible thing to depend on, but that’s just what I’d done. If the only reason you see anyone is because you are in some activity with them, you will cease to see them when your participation in that activity ends (e.g. dramatic productions).
- I have no passion for anything other than other people. When I look into a happy future for myself, I don’t see myself doing anything, I see myself with other people. Throughout my life I’ve tried many different activities, from music to wrestling to social justice. However, I inevitably fail to connect through these activities because not really interested in them the way that other people are. For example, EWB is full of incredibly excited and passionate people. While intellectually I believe in the work they’re doing I’m separated from them because I don’t share that passion (and because of their rather anti-religious bent). I really don’t care what I do, so long as I’m doing it with people I care for.
- If being a professional engineer is close to as much work as being an engineering student, I’m going to quit and do something else. Quite probably, teach high school.
- The world is full of wonderful people I have constant contact with but don’t know and never will. I made this realization at the end of high school when I looked around me and saw that I was surrounded by kind, decent people, but they weren’t my friends. How come people fail to connect?
- Virtually the only reason I had contact with anyone is because I was in high school with them. This hit in first year when everything I’d known was quite suddenly gone. Happenstance is by definition a terrible thing to depend on, but that’s just what I’d done. If the only reason you see anyone is because you are in some activity with them, you will cease to see them when your participation in that activity ends (e.g. dramatic productions).
- I have no passion for anything other than other people. When I look into a happy future for myself, I don’t see myself doing anything, I see myself with other people. Throughout my life I’ve tried many different activities, from music to wrestling to social justice. However, I inevitably fail to connect through these activities because not really interested in them the way that other people are. For example, EWB is full of incredibly excited and passionate people. While intellectually I believe in the work they’re doing I’m separated from them because I don’t share that passion (and because of their rather anti-religious bent). I really don’t care what I do, so long as I’m doing it with people I care for.
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